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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

 On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:
> My neighbors to the north are Georgia, Northern FL Panhandle transplants.
> Been here (CA) a lot of years and they still refer to themselves as
> Crackers.  I was surprised because back in the dark ages when I was knee
> high, my nanny used the word as you describe it.  She was black and from
> Georgia.  She is also the first person I ever heard use the word "nigger."
> She said both with the same tone of voice.

You had a nanny? Was that on the ranch where you had the grandfather
born during the Civil War?

Marie